Includes bibliographical references and index

Foreword / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie -- Preface / Carole E. Boyce Davies -- Introduction -- Moving the Mountains Making the Links / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie -- 1. African Women, Culture and Another Development -- 2. Studying Women Through Literature: Theses on Rural Women in Africa -- 3. The Female Writer and her Commitment -- 4. Women in Nigeria -- 5. The Proletarian Novel in Africa: Problematizing from Iyayi's Violence -- 6. The Representation of Women: The Example of Soyinka's Ake -- 7. The Bilingual to Quintulingual Poet in Africa -- Interlude: Meditations: A Prose Poem on Nigeria -- 8. Introducing WIN: Women in Nigeria -- 9. The Rights and Humanity of the Nigerian Woman -- 10. African Marxists, Women and a Critique of Everyday Life -- 11. Mobilizing the Mobilizers: Sex and Gender Problems in Nigeria Today -- 12. Beyond the Women's Decade: A Message to Middle-Class Women -- 13. Speech at a King's Palace -- 14. The Image of Women and the Role of the Media in a New Political Culture

15. Sisters are not Brothers in Christ: Global Women in Church and Society -- 16. Stories of Structural Adjustment (SOSA): The Human Cost of Structural Adjustment Policy (SAP) for Women -- 17. Mandela, Decolonization and the Rest of Us -- 18. Stiwanism: Feminism in an African Context -- 19. In Search of Citizenship: African Women and the Myth of Democracy

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